Provost

Year: 2018

  • Jeff La Frenierre (Geography)

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    Jeff La Frenierre has received funding from the National Science Foundation Hydrologic Sciences program to continue his research in Ecuador, collaborating with his colleagues from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and The Pennsylvania State University. The three year project is entitled “Collaborative Research: Determining the eco-hydrogeologic response of tropical glacierized watersheds to climate change: An…

  • 2017-18 Matthias Wahlstrom Lecture

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    Please join us Thursday, May 3, 2018, at 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Beck Hall 101 for the fourth annual Matthias Wahlstrom Lecture. Marie Walker, Professor of Psychological Science, will present her talk entitled “Liberal Arts and Diversity.” President Rebecca Bergman will introduce Walker, and refreshments will be provided for conversation after the lecture.

  • Mansergh Faculty Scientific Research Award

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    The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the newly-created Mansergh Faculty Scientific Research Award, which will be awarded to a faculty member for an academic article judged “best” among those published by Gustavus Adolphus College faculty in the current or preceding two calendar years. This award is open to any faculty member in…

  • Jill Locke (Political Science)

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    Jill Locke gave a talk titled “The Trump Presidency and the Death of Shame” as the 37th Annual G. Theodore Mitau Lecture at Macalester College. Locke also visited and discussed her work with students in Postcolonial Political Theory and Foundations of Political Theory.

  • Vita Faychuk (Economics and Management)

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    Vita Faychuk presented her paper “Credit Ratings Overreliance in Municipal Bonds Market” at the Southern Finance Association 2017 Annual Meeting.

  • Seán Easton (Classics)

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    Seán Easton published a book review in 2016 in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review Online of Marta García Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth, Óscar Lapeña Marchena (ed.), Imagining Ancient Cities in Film: From Babylon to Cinecittà. Routledge studies in ancient history, 9. New York; London: Routledge, 2015.

  • Marie Walker (Psychological Science)

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    Marie Walker published an article “Identity development and political self-regulation in emerging adult political attitudes and behavior,” in Emerging Adulthood with Emma Iverson ’10.

  • Yumiko Oshima-Ryan (Music)

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    Yumiko Oshima-Ryan was awarded the 2017 Artist Initiative for Performing Arts grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She published a new CD, Left, Alone–Piano Music for the Left Hand and performed a fundraising concert for Children’s Hospital with works from the disc. Conductor Ruth Lin, of the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, supported the fundraising concert and…

  • Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Economics and Management)

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    Marta Podemska-Mikluch was interviewed for the article, “CMS cancels plans to expedite Medicare coverage on devices.”

  • Don Myers (Hillstrom Museum of Art & Art and Art History)

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    Don Myers was invited to give a gallery talk at the Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College Friday, January 5, 2018, as part of the opening of the exhibit Contemporary American Painting [1945]. The exhibit, co-organized by Myers with Laurel Bradley, then Director of the Perlman Teaching Museum, features works drawn from the Hillstrom and…